In Re Gundelfinger

Petitioner was arrested for violating the provisions of a municipal ordinance, and seeks to be discharged from custody on a writ of habeas corpas.

The city and county of San Francisco maintains an ordinance imposing a license tax upon various classes of business conducted within its boundaries. Section 83 thereof reads as follows: “Every person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of buying or selling mining stocks, bonds, state, county or municipal stocks or bonds, or stocks of incorporated companies or evidences of indebtedness of private persons or of incorporated companies,…